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Costa del Este, Panama City, location of CIFI's head office at MMG Tower. Photo: Maria Mertens via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

About CIFI

The Spanish bank Bankia and the Inter-American Investment Corporation in 2001 established CIFI, the Corporacion Interamericana Para El Financiamiento de Infraestructura. CIFI is a financial institution, based in Panama, that arranges and provides debt financing to privately owned infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The financial institution is mainly active in the energy, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, water, environmental, social infrastructure and tourism industry segments. CIFI adopted the Equator Principles in 2007, and is profiled as part of BankTrack's Tracking the Equator Principles campaign.

Website https://www.cifi.com/2020/en/
Headquarters
MMG Tower, Costa del Este, 13th floor Office 13ª, Roberto Motta Avenue
Panama City
Panama
CEO/chair Cesar Cañedo Arguelles
Chief Executive Officer
Supervisor
Superintendency of Banks of Panama
Annual report Annual report 2020
Ownership

The shareholders of CIFI include commercial banks (Banistmo, Banco Pichincha, Caicha Banco de Investimento, Itau-Unibanco), investment funds (Finnfund, Norfund) and multilateral agencies (Caribbean Development Bank, BCIE and IFC).

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Tracking the Equator Principles

EPFIs reporting status

BankLast update
Country
Reporting period
PF deals under EP
Project names reported
% Project names reported
Details
CIFI
2022-03-14
PAN
2020
7
7
100
1.01000000008E+38
0
Panama
Profile
Reporting period
2020
PF deals under EP
7
Project names reported
7
% Project names reported
100
20220314
Last update: 2022-03-14
Explanation

EP reporting page: https://equator-principles.com/reporting-cifi-corpohttps://equator-principles.com/reporting-cifi-corporacion-interamericana-para-el-financiamiento-de-infraestructura-s-a-2019/

Explanation

Project name reporting status of Equator Principles signatories for each financial institutions' most recent reporting period. Where there is no percentage presented the EPFI has not reported having financed any project transactions in that reporting period. 

For more details see this page.

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New BankTrack Equator Principles reporting tracking tool launched

2020-09-21 | BankTrack
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Equator Principles requirements missing for most projects, finds new BankTrack study

Research into 37 projects financed 'under Equator' finds project-level grievance mechanisms or stakeholder engagement processes cannot be evidenced in 65% of cases
2020-08-11 | BankTrack
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Equator Principles: New BankTrack database sheds light on patchy project name reporting

BankTrack publishes database of Equator-financed projects, together with analysis showing some banks report few or no project names – notable poor performers include ING, HSBC and Lloyds
2020-06-29 | BankTrack

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annual reports
2021-11-04 00:00:00

Annual report 2020

2021-11-04 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2020-07-31 00:00:00

CSR report 2019

2020-07-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2020-07-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2019

2020-07-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2019-07-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2018

2019-07-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2019-07-31 00:00:00

CSR report 2018

2019-07-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2018-03-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2017

2018-03-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2018-03-31 00:00:00

CSR report 2017

2018-03-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2017-03-31 00:00:00

CSR report 2016

2017-03-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2017-03-31 00:00:00

Annual report 2016

2017-03-31 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2016-07-15 00:00:00

CSR report 2015

2016-07-15 00:00:00 | CIFI
annual reports
2016-02-15 00:00:00

Annual report 2015

2016-02-15 00:00:00 | CIFI
ngo documents
2015-01-22 00:00:00

Company profile of Ecoener and Hidralia Energía

Report presents an overview of the Spanish companies Ecoener and Hidralia Energía, both involved in the company Hidro Santa Cruz, which is involved in the development of a controversial dam in Guatemala.
2015-01-22 00:00:00 | Profundo

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CIFI has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
  • Equator Principles
  • IFC Performance Standard 1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts
  • Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

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CIFI has no publicly available investment policies policies on its website. CIFI's web page on corporate social responsibility can be accessed here.

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